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2. Set-top box - Wikipedia

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   A typical modern set-top box, along with its remote control - pictured here a digital terrestrial TV receiver by TEAC. A set-top box (STB), also known as a cable box, receiver, or simply box, and historically television decoder or a converter, [1] is an information appliance device that generally contains a TV tuner input and displays output to a television set, turning the source signal into ...

3. Rear-projection television - Wikipedia

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   Rear-projection television. Mid-2000s RPTV with HDTV tuner and YPbPr input as well as DVI (digital) video inputs. Rear-projection television (RPTV) is a type of large-screen television display technology. Until approximately 2006, most of the relatively affordable consumer large screen TVs up to 100 in (250 cm) used rear-projection technology.

4. Qube (cable television) - Wikipedia

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   Qube (stylized QUBE) was an experimental two-way, multi-programmed cable television system that played a significant role in the history of American interactive television. It was launched in Columbus, Ohio, on 1 December 1977. [1] Highly publicized as a revolutionary advancement, [2] the Qube experiment introduced viewers to several concepts ...

5. Cable converter box - Wikipedia

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   Cable converter box. A cable converter box or television converter box is an electronic tuning device that transposes/converts channels from a cable television service to an analog RF signal on a single channel, usually VHF channel 3 or 4, or to a different output for digital televisions such as HDMI. The device allows a television set that is ...

6. ON TV (TV network) - Wikipedia

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   ON TV was an American subscription television (STV) service that operated in eight markets between 1977 and 1985. Originally established by National Subscription Television, a joint venture of Oak Industries and Chartwell Communications, ON TV was part of a new breed of STV operations that broadcast premium programming—including movies, sporting events, and concerts—over an encrypted ...

7. Pillarbox - Wikipedia

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   Pillarboxing is the vertical equivalent of (horizontal) letterboxing and goes by several names, including reverse letterboxing, curtain boxing, or postcarding. Pillarboxing is derived from its resemblance to pillar box –style mailboxes used in the UK and the Commonwealth of Nations. The four-direction equivalent is called windowboxing, caused ...